Electrically-heated cooking device.



C. C. ARMSTRONG. ELECTRICALLY HEATH) COOKING DEVICE.

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Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

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ELEoTEIoALLY-HEATEn cooKme DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 27, 1916. Serial No. 106,244.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES 'C. ARM- STRONG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Marysville, Ohio, have invented certain new .and useful Improvements in Electrically-Heated Cooking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to electrically heated cooking devices and aims to provide an apparatus adapted forperforming the various cooking operations, such as broiling, toasting, boiling and'frying, in an expeditious manner and which apparatus shall be of attractive appearance and capable of use upon a dining room table without danger of injury to the table or liability of soiling the table cloth. I

I have also aimed to provide a construction embodyin a double heating'element which will enab e bread to be toasted simultaneously upon opposite sides, thereby securing 'a much quicker toasting action and in which the heat from both portions of said double heating element may be used for the purpose of heating the cooking or broiling chamber, or the vessel on top of the heater.

I have further aimed to provide a construction which may be-made almost wholly of stamped sheet metal, thereby reducing the costs for materials and workmanship to a minimum and producing an article of maximum strength combined with minimum weight.

With these and other objects in view, the invention includes in the novel features of construction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and particularly defined, by the appended. claims, an embodimentof the invention being illustrated in the accompanying 'drawings, in

which,

Figure 1 is a verticalsection through the complete stove "viewed from the front thereof.

Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the same.

Fig. 3 is a bottom sectional plan on line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4: is a sectional elevation of the upper portion of the device showing the parts arranged for use in poaching eggs.

Fig. 5 is a detail section of the cooking -vessel, as adapted for boiling.

v Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of the supporting connection for the heating element within the casing. v v

Figs. 7 and 8 are details of the electrical 7 socket connection employed.

Referring by reference characters to these drawings, the numeral 1 designates the base and 2 a frame for carrying an electric heat- Patented Apr. 23, 19 1s."

ing device which frame is supported at a;

suitable distance above the base by sheet metal sides indicated at 3, forming therebetween a cooking chamber or space. The base is formed of pressedsheet metal, providing a central flat supporting surface, and a downwardly extending flange, curved outwardly and upwardly to form "a trough, which will receive any overflow or drippings from articles being cooked and thereby serve to protect the table.

The frame 2 which carries the electric heating device is formed of pressed sheet metal and is provided with outwardly deflected marginal flanges 2? and 'slots 2 in the Walls immediately above these marginal flanges. 4

The sheet metal sides 3 are provided with :tongues 3, adapted to be inserted in said slots .before the lower edges of the sheet metal sidesare secured to the base, sald sheet metal sides at the'time ofinsertion of.

the tongues being held in an inclined position, so that after the tongues are in'place within the slots and the sides are swung downward the tongues are securely locked in the slots.

The said sheet metal sides are further provided with longitudinal'grooves or channels 3 which. are adapted, when said sides are swung down into vertical pos1tion,:to receive the marginal flangesof the frame.2..

a be curved downward and inward, as shown,

to form rounded beads 2 conforming in shape to the interior of the channels thus providing guides for receiving cooking or broiling vessel 5 or pan 10, when used as a reflector. These vessels when placed in grooves 2 effectively close the opening-be low frame 2.

- The lower edges of the sheet metal sides 3 are PI'OXlClGCl with vertically depending tongues 3, which are designed to pass through slots formed in the upper side corners of the base and they are heldtherein I provide feet or supports 5 of heat insulating material and these are preferably secured in position by the same screws which connect the tongues aforesaid.

The space between the base and the frame carrying the electric heater is of sufficient size to receive a cooking or broiling vessel 5 of material capacity. 7

Within the frame 2 is secured an electric resistance heating device, which comprises two sets of resistance wires 6 and 6 which are arranged parallel to and spaced from each other. While I refer to these as two sets of resistance wires, or devices, it will be understood that they may be in the form of a continuous band 6, which is wound spirally around the parallel insulating bars 7, the ends of the wires being connected wlth suitable contact terminals indicated at S. This winding of the resistance element around the two parallel insulating bars produces the upper and lower heating elements with a space between. The frame 2 is provided with an opening 2 at the front end for the insertion of an openwork drawer or toaster 9, which is preferably in the form of a wire tray, as shown and adapted to hold for example a slice of bread to be toasted, and having an end plate 9 adapted to close the opening. When this toaster is in place between the two sets of heating elements the bread will be simultaneously toasted upon opposite sides.

To prevent any waste of heat during the toasting operation I provide a pair of shallow pans or griddles made of pressed sheet metal, the same being designated by the numeral 10. These have marginal flanges 10*, which are designed to be-slid into 'the guiding grooves or channels 2 and- 3. These devices or pans 10 are also shaped so as to fit the top of the frame 2. Therefore,

when the bread is being toasted, one of said pans 10 is inserted in the grooves 29 and the other is placed'on top of the frame 2, whereby the bread being toasted is. kept in a closed space during the toasting operation, not only preventing waste of heat, but enabling the toasting to be more expeditiously accomplished.

' quently used to prepare edibles to be usedon or in connection with toast, such for exraeaeea the toast and its accompanying articles must I be heated separately.

By placing the vessel 5 on the top of the frame 2, in place of one of the cover pans 10, the eggs or other article may be cooked therein, while at the same time, the bread may be toasted in the closed space formed between the superposed vessel 5 and underlying pan 10.

Another of the possible arrangements of the various parts permits broiling in vessel 5, frying on griddle when placed on to of frame 2, and toasting in the closed space between griddle and vessel 5; all of these cooking operations being accomplished simultaneously. I

For the more convenient poaching of the eggs I provide the pan 5 with a removable frame 5* adapted to be supported a istance above the bottom of pan 5 and having openings 5 adapted to receive the individual egg cooking vessels 11. These are provided with handles, by which they maybe conveniently raised from the supporting member or frame. During the process of poaching or steaming eggs, one of the shallow pans When pan 5 is thus located below but in close proximity to the lower set of heating elements and the top of frame 2 is closed by one of the pans 10, allthe heat is radiated downwardly from both these elements.

Both the vessel 5 and the panslO have bottoms shaped to interlock with the frame as shown, to insure proper seating and guard against accidental displacement. The partlcular arrangement of the sup porting and spacing means is shown more indetall in Fig. 6.

From this it will be seen that the plate or bar 7 tion 7" struck inwardly to form a socket of non-circular cross section. Within. this is As both sides of the bread is toasted at the same time all liability of the same to warp placed a cylindrical nut 22 having a. noncircular head fitting said socket. A U- shaped sheet metal spacing piece15 has its arms bearing against the wall of plate 7 on each side of said socket piece, its head bearing against theface of plate or wall 16 and havingw-opening through which screw bolt 13 passes. The .U-shaped spacing piece 14 has its head bearing against thewall of frame 2 and provided with an opening through 13o (which is of sheet metal.) has a porwhich the screw bolt passes, the arms having tongues on their ends passed through slots in the wall 16 on each side of spacing member 15 and clenched over to hold said spacing member 14 in place. Wall 16 serves the purpose of supporting the ends of guard wires 23 and acts as a baffle plate to retard radiation of heat through the side wallsof frame 2. Plate 7 serves to support the electric insulating pieces 7 over which the resistance wires are wound, having for this purpose gers 7 b which hold the insulating blocks or bars in the channels formed thereby. Plate 7 is further shaped to form a guide for holding drawer or toaster 9 between said offset portions.

In the assembling of the heating element, the plates 7 may be placed on either side of a spacing block or temporary form and the resistance wire attached to or wound over the insulating pieces 7. This heating element is then placed in frame 2 and the ends of the resistance wires attached to the terminals 8. By inserting screws 13 through openings in side walls of frame2 and engaging nuts 22, the plates 7 a are drawn back against the spacing pieces 14 and 15 and the resistance wires are brought under the proper tension. The spacing block or temporary form aforesaid is then easily removed through the opening 2.

The resistance wire may be coiled helically, crimped or corrugated in such manner as to compensate for its expansion and contraction due to heating and cooling.

An important feature of my present invention is the means for electrically connecting the conducting wires to the heater.

Heretofore such connections have been usually in the form of a plug and socket brought together or separated by a relative rectilinear movement and engaging with such friction as to require the operator to hold the heater with one hand, while removing the plug with the other, especially after the parts have become somewhat corroded in use.

This is a matter of considerable annoyance and discomfort as it is usually necessary to remove the plug while the stove or heater is still hot.

To avoid this objection I have devised a coupling which may be readily connected and disconnected by a rocking movement, the same being shown more in detail in Figs. 7 and 8. 4

This coupling comprises a pair of tongues or projections 18, preferably of looped sheet metal secured to the frame 2 by means of offset portions and overturned fin-- screws 18 and properly insulated therefrom, and electrically connected to the resistance wires, as shown.

These tongues have oppositely directed shoulders or rounded projections 18 and inclined end portions. A socket member 19 secured to the end of the insulated conductor-20 has within the socket 20 thereof a pair of fingers 21 with indented portions 21* corresponding to the projections 18?. Either the tongues 18 or the fingers 21 or both may be made of spring metal. Preferably both tongues and fingers are made of spring metal to insure easy connection and disconnection and to aid in securing perfect electric contact when connected the fingers may have outwardly inclined or deflected ends 21 The space within the socket is considerably wider than the fingers 21, so as to allow lateral movement thereof, enabling the recess 21" of one finger to engage with the shoulder 18 of the corresponding tongue by applying the socket piece in a tilted position. By thereafter straightening the socket piece the other finger and tongue will spring into interlocking engagement with each other.

The connection may be separated by a reversal of the movement, to wit, a tilting of g the socket piece out of its normal position, and both these operations of connection and disconnection may be readily effected by one hand without the necessity of taking hold of the heating device.

What I claim is 1. In an electric cooking device an electric heating device comprising two sets of spaced electric resistance heating elements, removable means located between said spaced sets for supporting an article to be heated with both sides exposed to said'heating elements, and removable heat conserving means on opposite sides of said heating device.

2. In an electric cooking device a suitable stand or support, upper and lower sets of electric resistance heating elements carried thereby, and an openwork grid insertible, and removable from, between said sets of heating elements, said support being adapted to have a pluralit of cooking vessels applied to either exterior face of said heating elements.

3. In combination a base, two sets of electric resistance heating elements supported CHARLES C. ARMSTRONG. 

